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Tag: Journalism
Beware of Twitter – it will bite you in the ass
MAURICE TOUGAS: Examples of tweets destroying careers are numerous. Commit your thoughts to Twitter and you’re forever setting your opinions in amber
Covid-19 news coverage based more on #fearporn than science
PETER MENZIES: Journalists eager to echo doomsday alarms about pandemic case numbers while ignoring the social devastation of lockdown policies (FREE)
Media freedom doesn’t come free
DANIEL PROUSSALIDIS: Government funding is no magic bullet. Nor are crowdsourced and advertising-supported journalism perfect
It’s time we all stood up for Julian Assange
GERRY CHIDIAC: What message do we send dictators if we don’t have the courage to live up to our own ideals?
Alberta needs the ‘war room’ to challenge energy ignorance
BRAD HAYES: Too many reporters have bought into poorly-conceived advocacy positions and fail to provide readers with balanced information
In search of truth in the face of political lies
ANIL ANAND: These untruths reflect badly on candidates, and much more on the ability of the electorate to make thoughtful and informed decisions
Donor-supported CBC is a model worth pursuing
BRIAN GIESBRECHT: CBC has become tediously missionary rather than journalistic. And the last thing Canada’s private media needs is to compete with a subsidized entity
The man who brought down Alan Eagleson
BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: Russ Conway was an old-school journalist: principled, detail-driven and thorough to a fault. His tenacity paid huge dividends and taught great lessons
What can – and should – be done about CBC
PETER MENZIES: Get CBC out of the advertising business on all of its platforms. And make its content available to other media for free within Canada
De Adder cartoon controversy is no laughing matter
MICHEAL TAUBE: Michael de Adder’s contract termination by Brunswick News makes one wonder how far free speech and free thought truly go on a modern newspaper page
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